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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Wednesday 31 December 2025

25 drone flights from Wichita Police Department's published record.

25

drone flights over Wichita that day.

7:41 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:59 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 25 times on Wednesday 31 December 2025, the first at 7:41 am and the last at 11:59 pm CST, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, CST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Events44%
  2. Call for service40%
  3. Training and testing12%
  4. Search4%

Flights, in order

25 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:41 amTraining and testing1 min 55 s93c11561
8:26 amTraining and testing1 min 25 s5d1688a5
8:46 amCall for service13 mine0667162
8:48 amCall for service10 min4949145e
10:01 amTraining and testing22 min112e7039
12:07 pmCall for service11 min31a58ccf
12:49 pmCall for service24 min909c091e
1:16 pmCall for service8 min412fc3b1
5:46 pmSearch12 min97c14672
7:36 pmCall for service12 mine546cf0d
8:46 pmEvents19 min536e0c1c
9:06 pmEvents16 min2ed2930c
9:18 pmEvents14 min8f0e8776
9:22 pmEvents18 min8f4c67ae
9:36 pmCall for service14 min24ed0895
9:58 pmEvents16 min467f4403
10:16 pmEvents16 mind0ed59cd
10:23 pmCall for service15 min52a16618
10:34 pmEvents18 min567e94d7
10:53 pmEvents17 mincd337d09
10:56 pmCall for service16 min1c519c28
11:12 pmEvents18 min57ddc133
11:28 pmEvents18 min224bce9c
11:46 pmEvents19 mina60c9146
11:59 pmCall for service1 min 56 s11964772

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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